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KCCUK – 2012: The Year of the 12 Directors
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KCO Sydney: Cinema On The Park 2
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Korean Blogathon 2011
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Friends of New Korean Cinema..
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What’s Korean Cinema? Podcast
Features Archive
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Unstable States . . . Park Kwang-su Night at the 12 Directors
Posted on April 9, 2012 | No CommentsPark Kwang-su, the former deputy director of the Busan International Film Festival—now fifty-seven years old, and a dean in the National University of Arts’ Department of Filmmaking—was settling onto a stool between two bright banner stands promoting the third event in ‘The Year Of The 12 Directors’ series. There was...Continue Reading...
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Taekwondo at the Apollo: Lee Myung-se and the Great Safety vs. Cinema Debate
Posted on January 30, 2012 | 1 CommentThe ‘Year of the 12 Directors’ idea is a wonderful one—what began as a series of film screenings in the Korean Cultural Centre has become, for 2012, a celebratory mini-series of director retrospectives which promises to roll on from now until December. The schedule lists three film nights per month... -
Listening To Korean Cinema: The Podcast On Fire Network
Posted on December 5, 2011 | No CommentsIn the third of our short series taking a look at some of the podcasts that – one way or another – cover elements of Korean Cinema, we catch up with the ‘Podcast On Fire Network’… Probably the first English-language podcast dedicated to Asian cinema, Podcast On Fire has grown... -
Listening to Korean Cinema: Podcast Without Honor and Humanity
Posted on November 21, 2011 | No CommentsIn the second of our short series highlighting some of the podcasts which cover elements of Korean cinema, we take a look at the snappily titled ‘Podcast Without Honor and Humanity’… Launched in early 2011 Podcast Without Honor and Humanity hasn’t even celebrated its first anniversary but having reached its... -
![“It was the one military practice, the one token of martial skill, which ever held its own among a people who for thousands of years have preferred silks, pictures, poems and music, the stately crane in the paddy fields and the knarled [sic] pine on the mountainside.” —Historian J. L....](/wp-content/uploads/2011/11/Kim-Han-min-115x115.png "“It’s technically very difficult getting a tiger into a film:” a conversation on Kim Han-min and his film, War of the Arrows")
“It’s technically very difficult getting a tiger into a film:” a conversation on Kim Han-min and his film, War of the Arrows
Posted on November 1, 2011 | No Comments“It was the one military practice, the one token of martial skill, which ever held its own among a people who for thousands of years have preferred silks, pictures, poems and music, the stately crane in the paddy fields and the knarled [sic] pine on the mountainside.” —Historian J. L.... -
Listening to Korean Cinema: The VCinema Show
Posted on October 16, 2011 | No CommentsFor the first in a short series examining some of the podcasts which – one way or another – cover elements of Korean cinema, we take a look at ‘The VCinema Show’… The VCinema Show is a well established podcast, which has recently released its thirty-fifth episode. An accessible mixture... -
Festival News from Mayfair, First Impressions & a Salute to Curatorial Ambition
Posted on September 25, 2011 | No CommentsA warm September evening at the May Fair hotel. This is, apparently, a good place to stay if you want to get next to whoever and whatever is hip now in the fashion world, but more appropriately for us it is traditionally London W1’s luxury rest stop for overseas filmmakers... -
Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today at MoMA
Posted on September 18, 2011 | No CommentsThe Museum of Modern Art have announced their second season of screenings falling under the banner of Yeonghwa: Korean Film Today. Yeonghwa means ‘film’ in Korean and the films chosen illustrate just some of the diversity of Korean cinema – from popular mainstream titles such as the chiller Midnight FM... -
Giveaway: Preview Tickets for ‘Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon’
Posted on September 9, 2011 | No CommentsStarting the build-up to this years London Korean Film Festival (running 3 – 17 November) there will be a special invite-only preview of their opening night gala film, this years critically acclaimed box-office smash Arrow, The Ultimate Weapon (2011) at 7pm on Friday 16th September at The Mayfair Hotel Theatre... -
KOFFIA 2011: The Films… Part 3
Posted on August 16, 2011 | No CommentsContinuing our coverage of this years Korean film Festival In Australia (KOFFIA) here’s the final part of our overview of the films screening - check out our introduction to this years KOFFIA festival here, Part 1 of the films here and Part 2 here… Oki’s Movie (Hong Sang-soo / 2010)...
